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Thursday, May 25, 2017
SB 42 Passes Senate; Reinstates Appropriation Retiree Healthcare (from the Illinois Retired Teachers Association)
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2014 Kanerva v. Weems:
ReplyDeleteThe Pension Protection Clause makes it “clear that if something qualifies as a benefit of the enforceable contractual relationship resulting from membership in one of the State’s pension or retirement systems, it cannot be diminished or impaired… [The State of Illinois] may not rewrite the Pension Protection Clause to include restrictions and limitations that the drafters did not express and the citizens of Illinois did not approve... [P]ension benefits are insulated from diminishment or impairment by the General Assembly…” (Kanerva, 2014 IL 115811, 38, 41, 48).